1. Which set of requirements applies to ten-year acquisitive prescription of an immovable?
Answer & explanation
Answer: D. Civil Code art. 3475 lists possession of ten years, good faith, just title, and a thing susceptible of prescription.
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Acquisitive Prescription
Louisiana's counterpart to adverse possession: acquiring ownership or another real right by possession over time. Ten-year acquisitive prescription (Civil Code arts. 3473, 3475) requires possession, good faith, just title (a recorded act sufficient to transfer ownership had the transferor been owner) and a thing that can be acquired by prescription. Thirty-year acquisitive prescription (art. 3486) requires possession only, with no title or good faith. Louisiana also has a special three-year period for certain blighted property in large municipalities.
- Exam tip
- Match the period to its requirements: 10 years needs good faith plus just title; 30 years needs neither.
- Example
- A buyer in good faith takes a recorded act of sale from someone who did not actually own the land and possesses it for 10 years; the buyer acquires ownership.
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